Gender Discrimination on the Labor Market: A CDA approach
- Autores: Adelina Gherman
- Localización: Fòrum de Recerca, ISSN-e 1139-5486, Nº. 16, 2011, págs. 503-518
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In the past three decades, news production and its ideological implications have become the focus of many research studies about both the structure of the news reports and the ideological manipulation of news discourse. This paper is a case study that deals with the relation between discourse, discriminatory acts and biased ideology as reflected in Spanish and English written news. The approach used is critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the aimed outcome is the examination of a news item about female treatment on the labor market in Spain. It is the topic structure and the discursive strategies that are to be examined in order to detect if they succumbed to sexist prejudice: in other words, if they enact, perpetuate and even legitimize gender discrimination in the printed press. At the academic level, this study aims at contributing to further research, through the establishment of an evaluative framework from the critical vision about the role of discourse in (re)producing social inequality. Moreover, its goal is to promote a critical perspective for other social groups to control discourse properties, by taking a position and fighting against social shared biased models. Finally, it aims at revealing discourse principles in the contemporary media, as well as in the Spanish working contexts.
